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True the Vote’s impact said to be negligible

Civil rights lawyers on Tuesday said the national poll-watching effort of Houston-based True the Vote had fizzled even as the organization’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, said it was still responding to a deluge of complaints.

5 hits and 5 misses from the DNC, Day 3

BARACK OBAMA. If you doubted that he still has the soaring power of oratory that instilled hope in the 2008 electorate, you got your answer. But he needed to answer much more than that. Inevitably the reaction to the policy aspects of his speech will fall along partisan lines. But he made a credible case to the American people.

Malloy, Dodd fire up CT delegates

The 2012 Democratic convention started off with a bang for CT delegates Tuesday morning as they breakfasted with much of the state’s congressional delegation, and a couple of other luminaries named Malloy and Dodd.

CT Democratic delegates going to war to end ‘war on women’

Don’t tell Connecticut Democrats Patricia Miller, Nancy DiNardo and Susan Bennett that the Republican Party is not waging war on women.

Yes, they saw the cavalcade of strong women come to the microphone at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. They were watching when New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said, “I’ll be damned. We’re Republicans.” They even heard Ann Romney say, “I love you, women!”

The three Connecticut women, delegates to this week’s Democratic National Convention, are not buying it.

5 hits and 5 misses from GOP Convention, Day 1

5 Hits: Ted Cruz. Of all the new faces that represent the party’s future, Ted Cruz stood out, with a performance that was part Clarence Darrow and part Billy Graham — a startling, moving, polished

5 keys to success for Republicans at convention Tuesday

The sun is shining in Tampa, this convention thing is finally on, and you can see the resolve in the Republican leadership to reset the discussion, forget the rules rebellion, the Ron Paul revolution,

Paul forces turn to direct — very direct — mail

Ron Paul’s supporters have a low-tech but effective way of communicating with delegates here in Tampa. Not for them the e-mail blast or the text-message blitz. They’ve seen the demographic statistics